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We set goals for our family.

Where do we want our family, marriage and family to go for the year?

And so we set goals for us as a couple, as parents, financially, the house, kind of what we're trying to do around the house, spiritually.

So we're looking at our lives probably through about the lens of six key categories.

And we're saying, okay, what does God want to do in our family this year?

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at Family Life Today.com.

This is Family Life Today.

So I recently read a book where the opening paragraph, the first page of the book,

I felt like I was reading my story.

Oh.

Yeah, it was about a pastor.

Things were going great at his church, and he felt empty.

And he sat down with a counselor, and I thought, wow, this is, I went through the exact same thing. And it was the framework for what his life was about and his marriage. And he's sitting in the studio right now. Brian and Stephanie Carter are back in the studio. Welcome back, guys.

Thank you so much for having that.

That's funny.

You're over there, like, and I was like, I don't know if you're talking about me. I remember that.

Ooh, okay. I mean, I know you wrote the book a little while ago, but you remember how you opened it. I remember it well. I remember it well. I mean, it's called Made to Last, and it's eight principles for long-lasting relationships.

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